A depressing must-read. I rarely use the phrase “must-read”, do I? So you know this is important…
Sean Gabb writes:
Or, to give myself as an example, there was my BBC debate of the 16th February 2004 with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, an Asian immigrant who seems incapable of seeing any issue except in terms of white racism.
During this debate, I asked her: “Yasmin, are you saying that the white majority in this country is so seething with hatred and discontent that it is only restrained by law from rising up and tearing all the ethnic minorities to pieces?”
Her answer was “Yes”.
It is possible she did not understand my question. It is possible she would have clarified or retracted her answer had the debate been allowed to continue. Sadly for her, the BBC immediately switched off my microphone and threw me into the street. Mrs Brown was allowed to continue uninterrupted to till the end of the programme.
The hundreds of complaints received by the BBC and the Commission for Racial Equality were all either ignored or dismissed with the assurance that nothing untoward had taken place in the studio.
Gabb makes the point I’ve made here numerous times and have seen nowhere else in Canada –probably because even some of those on “my” side are careerist, overeducated white collar professionals who’ve swallowed whole the twaddle that “multicultural tolerance and diversity” made Canada great: That the Human Rights Commissions in particular and the Canadian Liberal Ruling Elite in general find the manner that workingclass people think distasteful and will use State power to correct the way they speak, which is essential if they are to correct the way they think:
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